52 Ancestors- Week 16-Otto Schildhauer

 Blogger Amy Johnson Crow has created a challenge, 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. Each week the object is to post about a specific ancestor.

Otto Schildhauer was my maternal 2nd cousin once removed.  While researching some collateral family members, I have come across a few individuals that I have been able to locate quite a bit about with minimal research time and effort.

One of these individuals is Otto Schildhauer (1898-1959).  I have been able to find a pretty good summary of his life just searching newspapers.   

Also, when people talk about the lack of privacy these days, I like to bring old newpapers up.  It's a good illustration that social networks really aren't a new idea.  It's only the technology that has changed.




Newark Daily Advocate, Newark, Ohio, 7 June 1898

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Schildhauer of Buckingham street, a twelve-pound baby boy.



Newark Daily Advocate, Newark, Ohio, 12 Jan 1900

The little child of Mr. Herman Schildhauer is quite sick at 349 Buckingham street.



Newark Daily Advocate, Newark, Ohio, 23 Feb 1901

Otto, the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Schildhauer is very sick at the home on Buckingham street.

Newark Daily Advocate, Newark, Ohio, 27 June 1901

Otto, thee little son of Mr. Herman Schildhauer, the well known B & O machinist residing at 348 Buckingham street started to the well a morning or two ago, with a cup for the purpose of getting a drink of water.  As he was going to the well he slipped and fell cutting his arm entirely across the left wrist.  The wound had to be sewed up, but the little fellow is doing well as could be expected at this writing.



Evening Independent, Massillon, Ohio, 26 Nov 1926

Another Massillonian is making a name for himself in movie circles.  He is Otto Schildhauer, son of Mrs. M Schildhauer of 1218 Wellman street.  Mr. Schildhauer has been successful on Hollywood as a technical director.

An Article in a Hollywood newspaper says:

Otto Schildhauer, well known technical director, whose services have been so much in demand of late due to his able ability and originality in set designing, left for Honolulu, where he will be on location for the next four months with the West Coast Picture corporation.

"Lately Mr. Schildhauer has been doing designing for some of the larger theaters on the coast and his work has attracted the attention of a great many of the larger picture corporations.  The West Coast corporation is indeed fortunate in having Mr. schildhauer working under its banner.

"During his four months stay in Honolulu, the management of his two cake shops will be in charge of Mrs. Lucille Holder who has been managing the store in Western Avenue.

Mr. Schildhauer went to Hollywood two years ago. 

So far, I have not located any titles of movies he may have been involved with. 



Evening Independent, Massillon, Ohio, 16 Jun 1931

Mrs. Schildhauer, of State Ave. NE, returned Sunday from Hollywood, where she spend the past year with her son, Otto Schildhauer.

Evening Independent, Massillon, Ohio, 9 Dec 1936

Miss Mae Breninghouse who has been spending three months with Mr. and Mrs. William Casack of 1st st. ext... NE, left Tuesday morning for her home in Hollywood, Cal., accompanied by Mrs. Margaret Schildhauer, of State ave. NE, who will be the guest of her son Otto Schildhauer.

Evening Independent, Massillon, Ohio, 25 Feb 1936

Otto Schildhauer of Hollywood, Cal. formerly of Massillon, arrived Sunday evening, having been called here by the serious illness of his sister, Mrs. Glenn H. Krishner, of 313 State ave, NE.

Evening Independent, Massillon, Ohio, 9 Jan 1940

Mrs. Margaret Schildhauer, of State ave, NE and Miss Mae Breninghouse of 1st st, NE ext. left today to spend the remainder of the winter in Hollywood, Cal.  Mrs. Schildhauer will be a guest of her son, Otto Schildhauer while there.

Evening Independent, Massillon, Ohio, 26 Jun 1940

Mr. and Mrs. Louis Drouhard and daughter, Pauline, of 2nd st. SW, and Mrs. H. Schildhauer of State ave, NE will leave Thursday at noon by motor for a two months trip to Hollywood, Cal, where the will visit Mrs. Schildhauer's son Otto Schildhauer, formerly of Massillon.




Evening Independent, Massillon, Ohio, 2 Jul 1959

Otto B. Schildhauer, 61 of 4933 Melrose Ave. Hollywood, Cal., former Massillon resident died at 2:05 am today in the Massillon city hospical where he was admitted May 18.

A Native of Newark, O, Mr. Schildhauer came to Massillon at the age of 12 years and formerly attended St. Joseph's parochial school.  Since 1925 he had lived in Hollywood where he owned and operated The Food Shop.

Mr. Schildhauer is survived by his mother, Mrs. Margaret Schildhauer, who made her home with  him in Hollywood and two sisters Mrs. Ernest Gross and Mrs. Glen Krisher of Massillon.

The funeral will be held Saturday at 9 am in St. Mary's Catholic church.  Internment will be made in the parish cemetery.

Friends may call at the Gordon Shaidnagle-Hollinger funeral home Friday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 pm

The Rosary will be prayed Friday at 7 pm at the funeral home.



52 Ancestors-Week #4-Margaret McFadden Ferry

Margaret McFadden (1845-1905) was the sister of my great grandfather Dennis McFadden (1847-1924).  According to family stories, when Dennis and his brother John arrived in America circa 1852, they stayed with a sister who was already living in Ohio.  She was also said to have been married to a man named Dennis or Daniel Ferry.

No information so far has been discovered about her life in Ireland, her immigration and her eventual residence in Ohio.  The earliest record of her so far comes from several newspaper notices published at the time of her death in 1905.



Newark Advocate, Newark, Ohio, 1905 Sep 30

                                               Dangerously Ill                                                                                                          
                                              Mrs. Margaret Ferry is lying danger-
                                              ously ill at the home of her daughter,
                                              Mrs. Herman Schildhauer, of Bucking
                                              ham street.
 



Newark Advocate, Newark, Ohio, 1905 Oct 7

                                                      Mrs. Margaret Ferry
                                                   Mrs. Margaret Ferry died at the
                                                home of her daughter, Mrs. Herman
                                                Schildhauer, No. 349 Buckingham
                                                street, Saturday.   The deceased was
                                                aged 60 years and leaves three sons
                                                and two daughters and one brother
                                                besides a circle of friends.   Funeral
                                                services will be conducted at St. Fran-
                                                cis de Sales church Monday at nine
                                                o'clock  and the remains will be laid
                                                to rest in the Cedar Hill cemetery.
                                                
Here is her Find A Grave memorial at Cedar Hill Cemetery in Newark Ohio. 



 

                                                                   CARD OF THANKS
                                                    We wish to express our most sin-
                                                 cere thanks to our friends, relatives
                                                 and kind neighbors for the many acts
                                                 of kindness and sympathy shown us in
                                                 our sad bereavement in the loss of our
                                                 rearly (sic) beloved mother, Margaret Mer-
                                                 ry.  We wish to thank the employees of
                                                 the B & O machine shop, the Royal
                                                 Neighbors of America, and Neighbors
                                                 for their floral offerings.  Mr. and Mrs.
                                                 Herman Schildhauer.
                                                                                       


Newark Advocate, Newark, Ohio, 1905 Nov 25

      
                                                                      Wills Probated
                                                  The wills of Margaret Ferry, de-
                                                  ceased of Newark, and Jacob Benner,
                                                  deceased. of Hartford, have been ad-
                                                  mitted to probate.                          



Newark Advocate, Newark, Ohio, 1906 Apr 11

                                                                      Probate Court
                                                  ...Margaret Schildhauer has been ap-
                                                  pointed executrix of the last will and
                                                  testimony of Margaret Ferry, de-
                                                  ceased, of this city.   Bond, $2000(?).

                                              ADMINISTRATORS DOCKET
                           No. 1505 Estate of Margaret Ferry      late of Newark
                           Licking County, Ohio (Decedent died,    Oct. 7th 1905
                           Margaret Schildhauer  Executrix  P.O. Address, Newark Ohio         

With this I was able to order the probate records for Margaret Ferry.  I have not transcribed the full document yet, but I have pulled out some key information that will help me continue my search into this line.

Her probate file states that she died on 1905 Oct 7 in Licking County, Ohio.  It also includes a transcription of her will which names several family members, their relationship to Margaret and where they lived at the time, if known:

1. Margaret Schildhuaer, daughter, Newark, Ohio, 349 Buckingham
2. Daniel Ferry, brother, Crooksville, Ohio
3. Dennis Ferry, brother, unknown.
4. Katie Ferry, sister, unknown, Portsmouth, Ohio, where last heard of.

 The link between Margaret Ferry and Dennis McFadden is indirectly supported by this notice published in 1919:

 

Evening Independent, Massillon, Ohio, 1919 Oct 1

                                             Mr. and Mrs. Dennis McFadden
                                          of Pittsburg returned this afternoon
                                          after visiting their niece, Mrs. Her-
                                          man Schildhauer, of West Charles
                                          street.




Sources:

Cousin Kathleen, West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, to Elizabeth, letter, 2 January 1997, sharing unsourced and uncited genealogical information on Dennis McFadden; Personal Correspondence, 1997; McFadden Family; McFadden File; privately held by Daniel Sample, [ADDRESS WITHHELD], Stafford, Texas.

Newark Advocate, Newark, Ohio, NewpaperARCHIVE.com

Evening Independent, Massillon, Ohio, NewspaperARCHIVE.com.